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MACHINE POR PACKING SALT, FLOUR, 6m. No. 298,501. Patented May 13, 1884.

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MACHINE FOR PACKING SALT, FLOUR, 85C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,501, dated May 13, 1884:.

' Application filed April 17, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom t mag/concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD RADLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of N ew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Packing Salt, Flour, &c.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

rIhis invention relates to machines for packing salt, flour, &c., in barrels; and it consists in the parts and combination of parts, as hereinafter fully described and elaimed.

The device is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, as follows:

Figure l is a-side elevation. Fig. 2 is a front elevation.

A A A niark the frame-work. A A A mark a sliding frame which moves vertically within the uprights of the frame A. I I is a platform and movable frame which supports the barrel into which the salt or other matter is to be packed. K is the barrel or package to be filled. H is ahopper by which the matter to be packed is fed into the barrel. H is an enlargement of the hopper, which caps over the barrel. D is the tamper or packer-head. CZ is stem of the tamper. C is a yoke on the end of the tamper-stern. C is a guide-bar eX- tending above the yoke. B2 is an eccentric on the shaft B, which works in the yoke C. c' c are blocks on the yoke, on which the eccentric bears, the said blocks being, in fact, part of the yoke. e is a pawl hanging on the yoke, and acting upon a ratchet, E, which is secured to the beveled gear F, which runs loose on the shaft B. F is a beveled gear 4o journaled by its hub in the box f ou the slid- A. G is a pulley for revolving the shaft G', and g f/ is a pawl and ratchet for preventing rotation of the shaft G in one direction eX- cept when desired. V is a valve in the hopper H. I is anarm by which the valve is moved. V2 is a cord attached to the arm, and, passing over the sheave V3, connects with a vertically-movable bar, V, which is guided by a guide-bracket, Vl. V5 is a knob ou the rod V4, which can be adjusted at different points by being run on a screw-thread on said bar. Vi is an arm on the frame A, which embraces the rod VAL and slides upon it.

lThe parts notnamed and described above will appear from the following general description of the construction and operation.

XVhen the machine is ready for commencing work, the frame A is in the position shown, the platform I is lowered, the package or barrel is put on the platform I, the wheel J4 is revolved andthe sprocket-chain J2 revolves the shaft J, and the rack and pinion i j elevate the platform until the barrel is brought snug against the under side of the rounded part of the hopper II. The frame A is then let down by disengaging the pawl g from the ratchet g, and by manipulating the hand-rope which goes over the wheel G. As the frame goes down, the tamper D is let down into the bottom of the barrel, and the arm V6 comes in contact with knob V5 and pulls down the rod V4, and thus draws up the cord V2, and thereby opens the valve V. The opening of this valve causes the barrel to till up with the salt or other substance contained in the hopper. The machine is then set in motion, the shaft B revolves, and the eccentric B2 raises and lowers the tamper. At each reciprocation of the tamper the pawl c makes an engagement with the ratchet E and moves it, and thus the gear F is gradually rotated, and this revolves the gear F, which turns the tamperstem. Thus it will be seen the tamper both moves up and down and tamps or packs the salt or other matter, but also rotates. The tamper-head is constructed with two Wings, (or more,) each of which has part of its face flat, as d', and part, d, inclined upward, so that as it revolves it works its way up like a screw.

The action is so timed that the rotation of the roo tamper occurs as it is going up and not when it is coming down, and thus the tamper does not have to lift up the salt that is on top of it, but worms its way up through it. As the salt passes and is packed below the tamper, it rises toward the top of the barrel and carries thc frame A' and all the gearing attached thereto up with it. In fact, the pressure down caused by the eccentric is always against the superincumbent weight ofthe frame and gearing, &c., thereon, and not against any fixed resistance. The frame A' can be weighted more or less, as desired, or the wheel G may be made to wind up a weight, which would be the same thing in eect. The -belt that runs on the drive-pulley B passes ovvertighteners, so that it is not loosened by the upward movement of the pulley. a certain distance, the arm V leaves the knob V", and then the valve closes. The position of the knob Y" is adjusted so thatthis will occur when the proper amount of salt to lill the barrel, when packed, has passed the valve. Vhen the barrelis llled,the machi neis stopped and the barrel is removed.

I am aware that flour-packers have been made with a worm Y or auger shaped presser which is rotated under pressure and screws itself out of the barrel, packing the flour below it 5 but it does not tamp the flour, as it has no vertical reciprocation.

That I claim as new isl. In a machine for packing salt, flour, and other like matter, a tamping-head which is formed with wings which are inclined upward, in combination with mechanism, substantially as shown, which imparts to said tamper a vertical reciprocating and horizontal rotary movement, the said rotary movement occurring as the tamper moves up.

2. In a machine for packing salt, flour, and other like matter, a tamping-head which is formed with wings which are ilat in part and in part inclined upward, as at (l and d', in combination with mechanism, substantially as shown, which imparts to said tamper a vertical reciprocating and a horizontal rotary movement, the said rotary movement occurring as the tamper moves up.

3. In a machine for packing salt, lour, Sie., the combination, substantially'as shown, of the After the frame A has gone up A is mounted on the movable frame A', the pawl and ratchet e E, gears F F', of which F is feathered upon the stem G2, and-the drivewheel B.

5. In a machine for packing salt, flour, &c., the combination, substanti ally as shown, of the following elements: a tamper D, which reciprocates vertically, and rotates and screws out of the barrel, as described, mechanism, substantially as shown, for operating said packer or tamper, a hopper for supplying salt or other matter to the barrel, and a valve or cutoff in said hopper, which is operated from the vertical movement of the tamper as it is lowered into and as it rises up in the barrel.

G. In a machine for packing salt, flour, Src., the combination', substantially as shown, ofthe hopper II, valve V, valve-moving mechanism V', V2, V", V", V, and V, the sliding frame A', the tamper-moving mechanism B' B BL C E c I" F', and the tamper D. v

7. In a machinev for packing salt, iiour, &c., the combination, substantially as shown, of the following elements: the platform I, the platform-moving devices consisting of the handwheel J sprocket'wheels J J', sprocket-chain J2, shaft J, and racks and pinions j ij, the hopper H, with enlargement H', the tamper D, the moving frame A', carrying the tampermoving mechanism, and the frame-moving mechanism consisting of the wheel G, shaft G', and rack and pinion c a'.

In testimony whereoi` I afiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD RADLEY.

Witnesses:

J. K; HALLock, Iionnnfr H. PORTER. 

